Wire-fence machine



No. 619,355. Patented Feb. I4, |899. E. S. SCOFIELD. WIRE FENCE MACHINE.

(Application filed May 25, 1897. Renewed July 29. 1898.v

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No. 6|9,355. Patented Feb. I4, |899.

E. S. SCDFIELD.

WIRE FENCE MACHINE.

{Application filed. Hay 25, 1897. Renewed July 20. 1898.1 (Nu Model.) 2 Sheets-$11901 2.

UNTTnn STATES PATENT @Erica EDVARD STUART SCOFIELD, OF RIDGEVVAY, NEV YORK.

WIRE-FENCE MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 619,355, dated February 14, 1899.

Application led May 25,1897. Renewed July 29,1898. Serial No. 687,214. (No model.)

To r/.ZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that l, EDWARD STUART SCO- FIELD, a citizen of the United Slat es, residing` at Ridgeway, in the county of Orleans and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fence-Machines; and l do declare the following to loe a full, clear, and exact description of the in vention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to improvements in hand-maehines for securing vertical stays or pickets to the horizontal wires of a wire fence; and the object is to provide a simple, economical,` and effective device for this purpose.

To this end the novelty consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a top plan view of' my improved wire-fence machine. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section. Fig. 4 is an end view of the same. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective View of one of the adjustable twister-disks and its socketsleeve. Fig. is a perspective view of the twister-.disk detached from its socket-sleeve. Fig. 7 is alongitudinal section on the line 7 7, Fig. (i.

1 represents a rectangular frame comprising a longitudinal yoke 2 and the right-angular arms 3 3', arranged parallel with each other and formed integal with said yoke. 4 represents the drivin g-shaft, journaled in said yoke and formed with an operatingcrank handle 50, similar in configuration to a carpenters brace.

5 represents a rigid handle fixed in the yoke 2 to act as a support and also as a support in adjusting the machine ready to receive the running wires.

6 represents a mitergear xed on the inner end of the shaft 4, which meshes With tWo corresponding miter-gears 7 and 8, formed with integral sleeves 7 and 8, journaled in the angular arms 3 and 3 and adapted to be rotated in opposite directions by said gear 6.

The ruiter-gear 6 is fixed to the inner end of the shaft 4 by a removable'pin 4', and the outer face of the ruiter-wheel hub is formed with a clutch 6', which engages a correspond ing clutch 1, fixed on the shaft 4 by a pin 5.

Then the machine is to be used in confined quarters Where there would not be room to turn the crank-handle, the pin 4 is removed 6o and the handle operated as a ratchet.

9 and 10 represent the twister-disks, formed with the integral cylindrical shafts journaled in the sleeves 7' 8' and adjustably secured in place by the set-screws 72 82, extending 65 through said sleeves and into one of a longitudinal series of threaded orifices 11 in said shafts, and by means of this adjustment the oppositely-disposed and parallel faces 9 10 of the twister-disks may be brought closer 7o together or separated farther apart to conform to the width of the pickets or vertical stays which are to be secured to the horizontal fence-Wires.

nach of the twister-disks is formed with a 75 circular concave recess 12, eccentrically arranged with reference to the axis of the disk, and from the center of its depression or bottoman orifice 13 extends transversely through the disks and communicates with a longitu- 8o dinal groove 14, formed in the twister-shaft.

1G 17 represent integrallongitudinal brackets extending in opposite directions from the parallel arms 3 3', and their outer ends are turned inwardly at a right angle to the tWisterends of the arms 3 3 and corres ondinfr rao dial slots 2O 20 are formed in the miter-gears 7 and V8, which form a continuation of the slots in their sleeves 7 8'.

The twister-disks 9 10 are also provided with radial slots which comm u nicate with the alined slots 22 22 in the twister-shafts, and 23 23 represent short slots formed in the Walls of the recesses 12 l2, which connect said recesses with the slots in the faces of the twisterdisks proper, and they serve to force the Ioo wind-up close and snug to the sides of the picket or stay and also to crowd the free ends of the tie-Wire close to and wrap it snugly around the horizontal Wire.

In operating the machine the twister-disks are rst adjusted toA correspondl to-th'e'widfth of thel pickets or vertical stay-wires to be xed to the longitudinal horizontal wi res comprising the fence. The shaft 4 is then rotated by its crank-handle until the slots in the miter-gears 7 8 and the twister-disks 9 10 are alined with the corresponding slots in the arms 3 3 and the retaining-slots in the guides 16' 17. This also brings the orifices 13 l'i'n the twister-disks and the grooves 14 14 in their shafts into alinement. A picket or vertical stay-Wire is ythen placed in position against the horizontal fence-wire and the machine adjusted so as to encompass the picket or stay-wire and also receive the fence-wire through the alined slots in the miter-gears. A short binder or tie wire is now passed longitudinally through the grooves in the twistershafts, so as to extend parallel with the'fencewire and on theopposi't-e sideof thepicket'or stay-wire, and the ruiter-gear 6 rotated by means of the shaft 4 and the handle 5,Which twists thefree ends of the tie-Wirearound the fence, making a compact close coil' on the fence-wire on each side of the picket or stay'-, wire and firmly and Vrigidly bindingthe same to the fencewire. v

Although l have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the frame, a twisting mechanism substantially as described, mounted in said frame, the integral longitudinal brackets 16, 17, extending in 'opposite directions 'from said frame and having their outer ends turned `at a right an.- gle to the twister-shafts to form the guides 16', 17 provided with the slots 162, 172, as and for the purpose set'forth.

2. vA Wire-fence machine comprising the frame l, the shaft 4, the miter-gear 6 secured to said shaft by the removable p in 4l and provided with the clutch 6" andthe clutch 1 fixed to said shaft 4 by the pin 5', as and for the purpose set forth.

` In testimony whereof I hereunto ax my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD STUART SCOFKIELD.

Witnesses:

C. S. SOOFIELD, E. G. HUNT. 

